This Award is unique in that each year only one judge (without committee) is responsible for the outcome.Each year, the judge examines the submitted scores and selects by his own judgment the compositions to be awarded.In 1998 György Ligeti stated that all the submissions were rubbish, and no prize was awarded, much to the embarassment of the foundation.

I rather like this story, and never forgot it.Ligeti has a great sense of individual creativity and humor.